Kai wrote, among other good stuff: <with Vila one always gets the feeling he should sound more colloquial than he does.>
This is a problem with Vila in English as well :-) I've read a number of stories where he's written with a heavy and intrusive 'dialect', supposedly to emphasise his lower class, and always find it distracting.
<It may also be the dialogue's tendency towards the kind of neutral sci-fi dialect, where temporal tell-tale signs like contemporary slang or pronounced regional accents are downplayed to homogenise the language and also to make it sound more "timeless".>
I also think any attempt to invent 'new' slang or word usages tend tto jar horribly (in Stardrive, for instance).
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